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Impressionist Gardens

One of the biggest draws in Edinburgh this year is a gorgeous exhibition of Impressionist art.

Oh Barack, you shouldn't have!

When Obama and Cameron swapped artworks this week, they joined a tradition as fraught as it is old.

Orlando Bloom: our greatest movie actor?

In the past decade, Orlando Bloom has been in more box-office hits than anyone else. David Gritten draws his own conclusions

Never heard of the xx? Actually, you have

Neil McCormick on the mysterious Mercury favourites, the xx, who are taking the music world by stealth not storm.

Mandelson: spurned mistress

Lord Mandelson's memoirs are described as a good beach read

There are some very enjoyable things in the great courtier's The Third Man.

Role Models by John Waters: review

The film director John Waters’s finest invention is himself, argues Tom Shone, delving into his new book of interviews, Role Models

Leonardo da Vinci exhibition

In pictures: major works will go on show in Britain for the first time.

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Best books under the sun

A selection for the summer from our favourite authors and critics.

Scene from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Kiss goodbye to reality

Leo DiCaprio is the latest to set out on Hollywood's Yellow Brick Road.

Paula Rego: Prince Pig and his first Bride

Gallery preview: in pictures

Preview our choice of the UK's best current and upcoming shows.

Why I love...

Bicycle Thieves: a heartbreaking film about the effects of economic despair.

Nas and Damian Marley, Hammersmith Apollo

With the loudest, happiest, most upbeat audience witnessed in a while, it was the kind of gig where you really know you’ve been at a gig. Rating: * * * * *

Scottish arts face £2 million funding cut

Scotland’s leading performing arts groups face cutting their productions and staff after it emerged they have been ordered to prepare for their budgets being slashed by more than £2 million.

Turning art into artifice

National Portrait Gallery show reveals dazzling and subtle quality of photographer Camille Silvy.

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Sir Peter Blake: why I put Pop before pot

The pioneer of Pop talks to Roya Nikkhah about being the grandfather of British art, shunning the Sixties' drug culture – and the anguish caused by his most famous work, the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album cover

Scottish arts face £2 million funding cut

Scotland’s leading performing arts groups face cutting their productions and staff after it emerged they have been ordered to prepare for their budgets being slashed by more than £2 million.

Scottish arts face £2 million funding cut

Scotland’s leading performing arts groups face cutting their productions and staff after it emerged they have been ordered to prepare for their budgets being slashed by more than £2 million.

Why Keith Chegwin will never be funny

It's not whether you're using your own gags – it's the way you tell them, argues David Quantick.

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Northern Spain via Santander

Follow Derek Bishton as he takes a pilgrimage through Northern Spain in a Bentley Continental.

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